A fair coine is tossed repeatedly .if tail appears on first four tosses,then the probability of head appearing on the 5th toss equals

(a) 1/2

(b) 1/32

(c) 31/32

(d) 1/5

Dear Piyush,

Ans:- As the coin is fair hence the prob of getting head or tell is 1/2 always. It does not depend upon the preveous experiments.

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